“We did make a concerted decision that there’s plenty to read in the magazine, so why not highlight the sort of things we do with photography?” said Gerry Marzorati, the editor of The Times Magazine.

He said that if he had an extra 10 pages in the magazine every week, he “would devote the space to photography rather than words. We give people tens of thousands of words every Sunday.”

“It’s something that occurred this year to a greater extent,” he continued. “Rather than put a fourth story in the feature well, we said, well, let’s blow out the photography. And give a more enriched visual experience.”